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“Chaos; control; chaos; control; You like?  You Like?” states Stockard Channing while portraying Ouisa Kittredge and having her husband Flan Kittredge (Donald Sutherland) flip a double-sided painting by Wassily Kandinsky with the styles on each side being either chaotic or controlled in Six Degrees of Separation.   Adapted from the play of the same name by [...]

10. 2001: A Space Odyssey Released: 1968 | Set in the year: 2001 Clarke’s biggest contribution to science—the concept of placing satellites in geosynchronous orbit—makes the briefest of cameos in 2001. Despite its place in cinematic history, this movie is a particularly easy target. Once our own timeline slipped past the year 2001, it became obvious that, [...]

 Strange Days (1995) Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares, dealing in real-life experiences through a new technology that makes every sensation immediate. But on the eve of the new millennium, Lenny and his street-savvy friend and conscience, Mace, are suddenly caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal–plunging them into the bleak [...]

The story begins as simply as the title, A Simple Plan, would imply: two brothers, Hank Mitchell (Bill Paxton) and Jacob Mitchell (Billy Bob Thornton), along with Jacob’s best friend Lou Chambers (Brent Briscoe) find a crashed plane in the woods and inside a large sum of money in cash.  Lou and Jacob are both [...]

Posts for GreatDirectorsGreat Directors: David FincherGreat Directors: Jean-Pierre JeunetGreat Directors: Wes AndersonGreat Directors: Darren AronofskyGreat Directors: Steven Soderbergh Fourth in my ongoing Great Directors series is Darren Aronofsky, best known for Pi, and Requiem for a Dream. He was born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, NY, and has always had a love for movies. [...]

Summer of Sam This New York serial-killer flick from Spike Lee is a furious foul-mouthed frenzy of expletives with a tally of “about 400 f-words” and a few homosexual and racial insults. … The Big Lebowski After brazenly missing this movie off our 100 Movies Every Guy Must See list, we’re happy to finally include the Coen brothers [...]

With their premiere film writer/director team Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine gives us a pulse-pounding adrenaline-fueled action thriller starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart that starts with a rush and doesn’t stop that rush until the credits roll in Crank. Statham plays Chev Chelios, a hitman for a local organized crime gang, who awakens to [...]

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in this 2007 adaption of a Stephen King short story, directed by Mikael Håfström (Derailed, 2005) surrounding the mysteries of  a haunted hotel room in New York City. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "1408, 2007", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/1408-2007/" });